Tag: Wealth

  • No Worries

    a homily for Proper 14C Text: Luke 12:32-40 Hoard Thinking all the way back to last week, Jesus was asked to settle a property dispute. Two brothers were arguing over property and invite Jesus, the holy man, to help them settle it. Seems natural enough. Let’s call on the guy who can help us settle on…

  • See the degree of inequality

    For many of us, the notion of inequality is intolerable. A system that perpetuates poverty is an affront to our faith and belief about what we are called to do in this world. Of course not everybody has the same conviction. As this video highlights, however, virtually everybody believes the system is inappropriately rigged and…

  • Getting Good with GOD

    a Homily for Proper 23B Text: Mark 10:17-31 Jesus and Money Following Jesus is hard. He told the disciples so when He recruited them. He told them that they would have to leave their families and their homes and their work and they went along with it. When He showed them what it would be…

  • Heaven Insurance (Eating Scripture)

    Eating Mark 10:17-31 There is so much to feast on this week, and the main course is certainly the part where Jesus eats the rich. But something curious is offered up in the first course. Something about a man seeking assurance from a holy man that he can attain eternal life. and the holy man doesn’t…

  • Bp. Robinson on Occupy Wall Street

    I’m a little late in posting this, but I am happy to see other Episcopalians talking about this in an honest and direct way.

  • Because everyone needs to hear this

    “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.” 

  • Seperate and Unequal: income inequality in the U.S.

    Some have spent the better part of the last thirty years describing the dramatic economic shift toward the greater concentration of wealth in the ultra-wealthy, and the adverse effect this has had on the average American.  Some have even chosen to mock this concern in recent years, suggesting that “redistribution of wealth” is something to…